We all share one planet and are one hummanity, there is no escaping this reality.
You shouldn't trust the judgments of stock brokers picking individual stocks.
I love rainy and bad-weather days because this type of weather gives me a mental advantage, especially when I'm fishing in a tournament. When the weather is inclement, most fishermen start thinking of reasons why they can't catch bass. But, because I fish so often in bad weather, I'm thinking of all the reasons I can catch bass in bad weather conditions.
Rigor is not a substitute for imagination.
My research suggests that when people get rebuffed they become frustrated and angry, but they would do better to become curious about the reason for the rejection. I also found that people assume that others are like them, operating under the same knowledge, beliefs, constraints and priorities. This mirror assumption makes it easier to speculate about why others act in the way they do, but sometimes the mirror assumption is wrong.
Intuition is when we use our experience, and the patterns we have learned, to rapidly size up situations and know how to respond without going through deliberate analysis. Intuitions depend on the patterns we have acquired. Insight is about gaining new patterns.
Slow adaptation is driven by forces such as evolution. Fast adaptation is driven by forces such as insight.
I can't understand why anyone would want nuclear warheads. If you shoot them off, it's not like you can take over that country - all you do is kill millions of people.
It matters not how long we live but how.
I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it.
I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.